Short trips in the Banat

discover a hidden jewel-region, at slow pace

The region of Banat in south-western Romania (having Timişoara as main city) offers a typical central-European natural and cultural landscape, with a sensitive, meridional touch of the neighbouring Balkans. From the spectacular limestone cliffs of the Danube Gorge ("Iron Gates") in the south, to the wooden churches in the north, ancient monasteries in the plains and slow-paced peasant life in the secluded valleys of the Banat Mountains, the variety is surprising – and well beyond expectancy.

The region is extremely suitable for all kinds of travel: from short trips (one day or a week-end) to one-week tours, containing both cultural sightseeing as well as spots of natural interest (active tours, hiking). The Banat is virtually unknown to mass tourism, so the traveller discovers a piece of untouched old Europe, as only few still exist.

The trips in the Banat region are meant for:

business delegations / teams visiting a company in Timişoara for longer periods – the week-end trips in the surroundings will prove to be very rewarding surprises!

small groups of tourists curious to have an unspoiled travel experience, truly "off the beaten track"

You can have a glimpse of the Banat region by following the album here on the left; soon you'll find tour proposals bellow – until then, we are happy to arrange a customized tour for you.

Gingerbread houses: the "Baroque of the countryside"

In the XVIII-th century, the court of Vienna undertook radical, ground-breaking measures in the newly acquired Banat. Among others, many thousand German colonists were brought into the marshy Western Banat – at the beginning of the XX-th century, the Germans were making out almost a third of the population. This people were imprinted by the Baroque in such a way, that even in the 1920's they built their houses using a simplified, but obvious, version of the Baroque. A few thousand such houses still stand today, being a important landscape feature in the plains of the Banat.